Ye, the rapper formerly known as Kanye West, is being investigated by police on suspicion that he roughed up a man in Los Angeles.
Mike Lopez, a Los Angeles Police Department spokesman, told the Washington Examiner that Ye had been named as a suspect in a battery report.
“This morning, at 3 a.m., officers responded to Santa Fe Avenue and Bay Street. A battery report was completed with Kanye West as a named suspect. It is unknown how the victim was battered. [The] victim called police. Kanye was not at [the] scene,” Lopez said.
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Witnesses told TMZ that Ye punched the man, identified as an autograph seeker, in the head and neck. The news outlet also published an image and a video showing a man lying on the street and what appears to be Ye yelling at two women.
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An investigation is ongoing by the LAPD Newton Division. No arrests had been made at the time of publishing.
